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Most new SSD drives, e.g. Samsung's or Intel's, have transparent encryption (no matter if you set it up or not,) and you are able to "format" your drive by wiping the container with the encryption key, effectively making all data on the drive appear as random noise as long as the encryption algorithm, e.g. AES-256, isn't broken.


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